Jokinen wanted game to be suspended

Should Sunday's game between the Panthers and Sabres have been suspended after forward Richard Zednik had his neck slashed by a teammate's skate with 9:56 left?

Yes, said captain Olli Jokinen, who said it made him sick knowing it was his skate that cut Zednik. Center Stephen Weiss said he would have been fine not finishing. Several Sabres noted they had a hard time continuing.

"You can talk about focusing on the game, but that was always in the back of your head," Sabres defenseman Jaroslav Spacek told the Buffalo News. "You didn't see any big hits. Guys were just trying to go through the game."

NHL vice president of hockey operations Colin Campbell was at the game. He made the decision to keep playing - a move Martin said was made after they were told Zednik was going into surgery and "the situation looked under control."

Three years ago, when Detroit's Jiri Fischer collapsed on the bench because of a heart condition and needed to be revived, the league postponed the conclusion of the game.

"If it was my call," Jokinen said, "I would have gone to the hospital with [Zednik]."